Question 1: 24A) Imagine that you saw a beam of monochromatic light shine from a

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Question 1:
24A) Imagine that you saw a beam of monochromatic light shine from a vacuum into a prism made out of diamond, where the speed of light is much slowed. then you saw a beam of white light shine from the vacuum into the diamond prism. what would the prism do to the white light which it would not do to the monochromatic light? explain your answer.

Question 2:
24B) After you have explained how the oil slick works, your friend says its a shame that oil isn't really colored, because he would like to photograph the colors he sees, and now wont be able to, since the colors are only a trick of the mind. What do you tell your friend?

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a) the white light would be separated into its various colors (exiting the prism at different angles , depending on wavelength) - this is called dispersion. Since monochromatic light is light of a single wavelength there would be no dispersion and only a single ray would exit the prism. b) the different colors from an oil slick is not an optical illusion. Again the the incident white light would be dispersed into separate colors. The camera would "see and record" the different colors just as the eye does.

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